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GAMES OF MY YEARS: PC by Mr Biffo

27/1/2016

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The first PC game I ever played was Doom. As firsts go, that was a bit like losing your virginity to, I dunno... Jane Russell or Errol Flynn.

We somehow managed to get it running on the woefully underpowered Teletext PCs - albeit in a postage stamp-sized window - just enough to be able to fudge a review. 

So, more like losing your virginity to Jane Russell, if Jane Russell had been a primordial dwarf. ​And imagine that you then had to write an article about your experience, without letting on that she only came up to your knees.

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GLORIOUS MUD
The second PC game I ever played was a text-based multi-user dungeon adventure that we somehow discovered at work, once Teletext learned how to link its computers to the Internet.

​Whole days were wasted playing it, usually at the expense of several of the other players, who took the fantasy setting slightly too seriously. It's fair to say I made some enemies on there, in part because it was possible to edit the text that popped up automatically whenever your character entered a new location.

​Apparently 
"Mr Biffo enters, pulls down his trousers, and drags his bare buttocks across the floor towards you" wasn't treating the game with sufficient respect.


A LONG TIME AGO...

​When it came to reviewing for Digitiser, I was the console guy - in part because I already had all the consoles. Adam (Mr Cheese) was the Amiga guy - because he already owned an Amiga.

​And Tim (Mr Hairs) became the PC guy, because he went to considerable lengths to blag the department a free PC which he then took home with him. I recall his precise words being "Sorry, but I'm having this", as he carried the PC to his car.

I probably would've ambled along quite happily without a PC for some considerable time, had it not been for the 1995 release of LucasArts' Star Wars: Dark Forces.

The combination of first-person shooter and Star Wars was impossible to resist. Though I couldn't afford a top-end machine - Tim warned me that I'd have to upgrade it within a year - I managed to scrape enough monies together, mainly through flogging some of my old review copies to the second hand shop - to afford a PC that could run Dark Forces.


It was a revelation; we were two years away from Goldeneye on the N64 at that point, and there was nothing like it on the consoles. The buzz I got from seeing that main menu for the first time, from hearing that music, was tangible. As far as I was concerned, I was in Star Wars. It remains one of my favourite games of all time, and I don't think there has been a Star Wars game since which has so successfully evoked the spirit of the movies.

And I dare say part of the buzz came from finally being a PC owner; my experience of Personal Computers up to that point had been ones that were plugged into tellies, or had rubber keyboards, or ran games on cassette. All round, the PC was a whole new level of sci-fi.


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LOVE/HATE
It wasn't all about Dark Forces, mind; there are other highlights from my time as a PC gamer.

Blade Runner, Duke Nukem 3D, Command and Conquer, Outlaws, Urban Chaos, Quake II (I never got along with the original Quake; I just remember it feeling like sticking your face in a bowl of Twiglets); they all rank up there among seminal moments for me.


Unfortunately, over time, I developed a proper love/hate relationship with the PC. Frankly, I found it so profoundly flawed as a platform - so prone to crashing and being weird - that I think I'd struggle now to ever go back (I switched to Mac almost 10 years ago). It'd be like continuing to go out for drinks with a mate, if every time you saw him he started twitching and curled into a ball under the table, or threw up in your beer.

Plus, I seemed to go through PCs at rate of about one a year.
 The original Unreal killed one of them, such were its demands of the hardware. Another was throttled by a virus, for which there was apparently no cure. Another one - a laptop this time - died when I lashed out at the screen through sheer frustration. And another I damaged while trying to put something in its RAMhole.

​Coupled to that, I sort of associate the PC with a generally awful run of years in my life. I mean, such was the tiny council house in which I was living when I first got one, that the only place for it (and me) to go was the cupboard under the stairs, which I shared with a piss-stinking hamster called Bobby. I was, quite possibly, the inspiration for JK Rowling's popular "wizard" character Harry Potter.

STOP THAT
Once I stopped needing a PC to review PC games, I wasted little time in jumping onto Apple's back. Obviously, the Mac isn't known as a system for gamers, but its reliability and ease of use compared to Windows offset any regret I might've felt over waving goodbye to PC games.

For all my hard worn resistance, I'm slightly starting to warm to the idea of PC gaming again; having recently bought a slightly more powerful Macbook, to replace one whose A and Shift keys had ceased to work, I've finally engaged with Steam in a proper way. And though I might appear to baulk at the idea of VR... I wouldn't be any sort of gamer if I wasn't at least slightly interested in it.

I know that the only way I'm going to have a proper, 360-degree, appreciation of the modern gaming scene is if I swallow my prejudice, and re-engage with the PC again. Maybe it's time; I just need to move the tumble dryer out from under the stairs.

​Anybody got one they don't want? 
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THE COMPLETE GAMES OF MY YEARS by Mr Biffo
45 Comments
GallonOfAlan
27/1/2016 01:17:34 pm

In general you will find that the PC game experience today is very similar to the console experience in lots of ways.Windows now is a much more usable, secure and stable affair than the GUI-pasted-onto-DOS crasherama of Windows 3.x/95/98/ME. Even the relentless upgrade cycle to be able to run the new 3D shiny has abated. Games are cheaper and easily obtainable via Steam and similar online stores.You can get twice the hardware for half the price of a vaguely equivalent Mac, and you'll actually be able to run some games (and business software).

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Alastair
28/1/2016 10:01:03 am

I remember when I knew how a PC worked and had no problem working with boot discs for anything that required mouse and cd rom support.

Now Steam just makes it so easy, especially big screen mode. My laptop doesn't allow me to pay anything other than old titles, or a few recent indie releases, but if I'm not on the xbox, I'll more likely be on the laptop instead of the Wii.

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Euphemia
27/1/2016 01:20:17 pm

Ah, Doom. My particular brand of poison when it came to being woefully under-prepared for exams. PC for schoolwork, still can't believe my folks fell for that one.

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Alastair
28/1/2016 10:40:20 am

TIE Fighter did it for me at A-level time back in the late 90s.

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Timberwolf
27/1/2016 01:35:07 pm

I've had a gaming PC through pretty much every generation of the things; bleepy little XTs with four-colour graphics and cheesy single-channel renditions of 'Popcorn' for sound, 286s and 486s, that period in the early 2000s when you weren't sure the case didn't have a fully-functional jet engine in it, right up to today with a so-called laptop the approximate size and heft of a 1968 G-Plan sideboard.

And my overriding memory through all that time is never actually sitting down and playing a game.

PCs have always been about tinkering for me. First it was attacking save games with hex editors to unlock levels or add near-infinite lives. Then the era of AUTOEXEC tweaks, trying to free up that extra 6K of memory which'd give you both digitised sound *and* music or enable texture mapping. After that came level editors. Man, I loved level editors. I'd buy a game just on the strength of a sticker on the box saying "editor included".

I wish I still had the files. Duke Nukem 3D levels with automatic doors, flashing lights and functioning subway trains. Need for Speed tracks with spirals, hairpins and insane ski jumps. A Half-Life model of my sixth form college, and testing grounds driving the AI to breaking point. (The realisation that if you left Barneys and HECUs to their own devices they'd have a massive firefight was a good one.)

This is what PC gaming gave to me - the idea that anything sat within that CRT monitor could be tweaked, futzed with, painted bright yellow or sent hurtling into the sky by an errant editing-induced physics engine explosion. I never played games on the PC; I broke them, extended them or used them as a creative playground. (Anything with files impervious to my ministrations tended to swiftly end up on the shelf gathering dust.)

I think eventually the Playstation 2 taught me the joy of owning games just to play them... but never totally cured me. Even now, the moment I find a freely-editable text file in the directory of a racing game it's off to find out what happens if you give yourself a 5000bhp engine or a car with nine wheels.

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Hoboerotica
27/1/2016 01:42:28 pm

Do not be fooled by the words of GalonOfAlan, PC gaming is the same as it ever was. Expensive, unreliable and frustrating.

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MRDrinks
27/1/2016 05:27:23 pm

This simply isn't true. Unless you're determined to fiddle with graphics settings etc. Even then the Nvidia Geforce Experience can optimize the settings for your machine without you even having to go into the menu.

The initial outlay may be higher than the consoles but the options on PC completely

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Hoboerotica
29/1/2016 10:37:50 pm

"Nvidia GeForce Experiance"

*Shudders*

ChorltonWheelie
27/1/2016 01:47:06 pm

And how can you tell somebody uses a Mac?
Just wait, they'll tell you.
Your dead to me Biffo, dead I tell you!

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Mr Biffo
27/1/2016 07:43:38 pm

I could get my revenge by pointing out you used the wrong version of your/you're... But that would be petty,

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ChorltonWheelie
27/1/2016 09:38:12 pm

I meant "Bring me your dead" OBVIOUSLY.

william mcneil
1/2/2016 02:43:49 am

i dont know what you guys are talking about i have owned a PC for 10 years now i only use it for games and surfing the web only had to take it to the shop maybe 4-6 times and i havnt taken it to the shop for the last three years think my video card is a geoforce 6400 something like that rarly even have problems and if i do a reboot solves it i just dont get how people like mac's you cant trouble shoot cant system restore cant fix it on your oun and many shops dont do repairs for macs

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Stoo
27/1/2016 02:06:27 pm

Always been a PC gamer myself. Even in the dark, early days of CGA graphics and bleepy sound. So I was there for milestones like VGA graphics (for the first time actually not shit compared to consoles and Amigas), sound cards, Doom, X-Wing, 3D graphics, and Half Life. Will be until I die, clutching that mouse and keyboard in my withered, claw-like hands.

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Helios
27/1/2016 02:53:25 pm

I paid around £700 (not an excessive outlay) for the PC I built myself in 2011 and it still runs exactly the same till this very day, used daily with no complaints, no failures. Have only upgraded the hard drive to an SSD in the interim and it boots to desktop in less than 30 seconds. It's still more than adequate for new releases and I don't see any need to upgrade till the next round of graphics cards and 4K monitors become affordable.

Expensive? No - it cost less than a Macbook. Games are cheaper than consoles too. Unreliable? If you buy a decent unit, or better if you can build it yourself out of well reviewed parts that's not the case. Frustrating? Not any more, since XP Microsoft started to get their act together. Windows 10 has a few niggly bits but overall is very user friendly.

Give the dark side one more chance Biffo, you can still use a 360/XBone controller for most games these days if you still shudder at WASD.

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Mr Biffo
27/1/2016 07:42:52 pm

I want to. It's just money, y'know. To buy a proper one is gonna cost me at least a couple of grand.

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CdrJameson
27/1/2016 08:04:41 pm

You've been sniffing Mac for too long.

£800 would get you a PC that would play anything.

£1000 would get you a PC would play anything and have odd lights and a weird box.

£2000 would play anything, look ridiculous, wash the dishes, keep your food fresh and make a cup of tea in the morning because you'd quickly run out of things to add to the PC and spend what's left of your budget on a dishwasher, fridge and teasmaid.

MrDrinks
27/1/2016 08:09:21 pm

You could get one for a couple of grand but it would be massive overkill for even the most recent games and any for the foreseeable future (unless you plan to play at 4K). Even half that at a grand is going to get you a pretty powerful machine that will run any game, those crazily priced graphics cards like the 980 Ti really aren't necessary. You don't even really need to bother with a monitor if you're planning on using it only for games, Steam's Big Screen mode lets you run it through your TV making it act pretty much like a console.

From a 2 second google search here's one just as an example around a grand that will run anything I can possibly think of (including meeting the requirements for the Oculus Rift) http://www.meshcomputers.com/Default.aspx?PAGE=PRODUCTCONFIGPAGE&USG=PRODUCT&ENT=PRODUCT&KEY=1322570

Stoo
28/1/2016 10:49:38 am

There are a few grumbly sorts in this comments section so I thought i'd echo the above two commenters. £1k should get you a rather powerful machine. I generally spend less when building a PC and still end up with something quite adequate.

Also, gaming will never be as effortlessly convenient as a console, stuff still occasionally crashes or overheats. But life is generally a lot easier than it was in the 90s.

MRDrinks
27/1/2016 05:27:01 pm

PC gaming isn't what it was in the earlier 2000s where your machine wouldn't be up to running games 2 years later. I have a machine I built around 3-4 years ago for about £800 altogether and there still isn't a new game that I can't run at higher quality/resolution than any of the consoles. Using Steam I can plug it into my living room TV with Big Picture mode and it is essentially as easy as using any console (with the advantage of not needing to swap discs) I can also stream games to the old PC in my bedroom to play in bed, with the heavy graphics work being done on the machine downstairs. I don't anticipate having to upgrade it for another year and could easily stretch it further by turning some graphics settings down. I'm not going to be playing games at 4K with it but I don't see that as being a real problem for about 5 years when I buy a new TV (and what I've seen of 4K video it's really not that impressive a leap unless it's on an absolutely huge screen, the 65" screen I saw it on certainly didn't make me feel like I needed to upgrade. People running 4K on 30 inch screens or even lower to me seems just mad, even if you are only sitting a few feet away)

I still own a PS4, Vita and Wii-U but they're only for exclusives, I had intended to get an Xbox for Halo 5 but cancelled it at the last minute (and after reading the reviews thank god I did). if a game is multi-format you can pretty much guarantee the PC will be the best looking version (with a few exceptions of terribly optimized games) and with the console controllers being compatible you're not really missing anything other than Sony and Microsoft's online infrastructure.

The games are so much cheaper too, even at release, though not being able to trade them in is quite a drawback. I have the new Tomb Raider already pre-loaded in Steam ready to play once it unlocks, I got it for £25 compared to the inevitable £50 for digital or £40-45 physical release when it eventually comes out on the PS4.

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CdrJameson
27/1/2016 07:20:48 pm

I got £50 in Steam vouchers for Christmas.

Immediately bought 4 things off my wish list.

Still have over £30 left.

I feel like the King Of Games.

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favus link
27/1/2016 09:23:23 pm

If you review PC games and do PC stuff then we'll all chuck a tenner in to get you a PC, get a kickstarter going...

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The Green Spurt
28/1/2016 01:38:12 am

Don't bother. PCs are for stupid spendthrifts. "Only" £800 to buy a machine that will "play anything" (and I SERIOUSLY doubt that... Kabbadi?)
You don't need a PC for VR. XBox and Playstation are both getting their own VR right? And you can bet it will be a much smoother and less annoying experience to get up and running that Oculus Rift or the Valve one will be. Yeah ok so a few more FPSs or a slightly better resolution might give you more immersion - but you know what really breaks immersion in VR? Constantly crashing to the desktop because someone sent you a message on Facebook. Or having your game judder to a halt because your virus checker decides it needs to update itself and stop you from doing anything with your system while it does it. Or getting hit in the back of the head with a baseball bat by your wife while you're wearing your headset because she's come home and mistaken you for a perverted robotic intruder trying to suck data out of the computer through a cord attached to its face.

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chas
28/1/2016 04:53:40 am

Anybody referencing Kabbadi gets my vote.

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CdrJameson
28/1/2016 08:04:25 am

There's an embarassing lack of Kabaddi games for any platform, apparently.

yes!
28/1/2016 09:28:38 am

Ahh, early/mid-nineties channel 4 coverage of the mystical, magical game of Kabbadi

Alastair
28/1/2016 10:43:48 am

Ah, memories of catching that game on C4 in the mornings and not bring sure what was going on.

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Superbeast 37
28/1/2016 10:09:56 am

Currently running 980ti SLI and a over clocked 6700k and I still need more power. Talk of 4K is premature unless you want 30fps or PS4 graphics settings.

Anyone that tells you to "get an £800 PC and you will be fine" is plain wrong.

If that were the case I'd have done it and spent the other £1200 on coke and ladies of the night.

Nothing has changed in PC gaming. For every super optimised port there are a dozen bad ones that I swear to God I have no idea what they are doing with all that processing power.

The only solution is still an overwhelming application of brute force/cash. No such thing as overkill, even at 1080p. Go in with big money or go home.

If I had £800 I'd just stick with a PS4. The improvement in visuals ain't enough to justify the problems.

When the latest shoddy port is released the same fan boys who told you an £800 rig would be OK are the same ones who will blame you and not the game because "you only have a 970/i5, it's your fault don't blame the dev".

Or helpful advice like "update your drivers" (oh wow thanks never thought of that) or "format the drive and do a clean install" (won't make any difference but will keep you busy and stop you calling out their precious game for a few hours).

Also on launch day and for a fortnight after (3 Months with ubisoft games) don't expect to play many games. Expect to be browsing forums for fixes, ini file settings etc to try and patch it together until the dev fixes it.

This is the reason I own all the consoles and wait for the all clear before buying on PC.

I end up buying a hell of a lot of PS4 games....

On those rare optimised titles that have no issues it can be amazing though. I keep telling myself I'm done with PC but I keep going back to it. It's a hobby and a money pit for those with too much disposable income.

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MrDrinks
28/1/2016 01:58:51 pm

If you have an i7 and 2 980s and still can't get games to run properly then I'd give it up as a bad job and sell them on, Just because other people haven't experienced the same issues as you doesn't make them "fanboys", that kind of juvenile rubbish belongs on Gamefaqs.

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Hoboerotica
29/1/2016 11:00:08 pm

MrDrinks, you are a fanboy.


Also, Piss Plop Poooooooo!

Ha ha

Superbeast 37
31/1/2016 11:01:31 am

By "fanboys" I'm referring to this group who refer to themselves as "the master race" and go around shouting down anyone who dare highlight an issue with the emperors clothes.

My rig is not dissimilar to Totalbiscuits so when people suggest it is an issue with my PC (the usual attack employed by the "master race") I just point them in the direction of his port reports, the hundreds of others on YT or the good old Steam/Uplay forums.

One should note the issues Totalbiscuit highlights when running at a meagre 1080p on his £3000 rig (plus a £550 g-sync screen that insulates you from the worst effects of fps dips) and ask "yeah how will this be on my £800 PC and standard monitor".

Its also worth pointing out that running at or just above console settings isn't enough. Because you are sitting close to the screen (unless using your tv), "optional" items like high levels of AA are not necessarily "optional" due to you seeing the "warts and all".

Ironically the weaker the PC, the lower the resolution you can push and so perversely you need those power hungry AA solutions even more! It's a double edged sword.

Also whilst you can lock to 30fps if need be, this doesn't tend to be as pleasant as a 30fps console experience as many PC conversions seem to expect you to run at 60 and don't always come with an option to use the advanced motion blur techniques employed on the console - some of which are very effective.

Many people will agree that 30fps on console feels a lot better than 30 on PC in a lot of games. TV screens often give you free blur as well whereas a monitor with half decent response (cheap TN's are pretty fast!) make a lower fps look more jerky than your VA panel TV.

Then tearing is more noticeable on PC so you really need a *minimum* frame rate of 60 as well as that good AA solution to get an experience that *feels* "as good" as on a console even if on paper it is better.

Unless you treat it as a hobby and spend the big bucks, you often find yourself dissatisfied. Don't hate me for saying how it is!

MrDrinks
31/1/2016 03:24:40 pm

Won't let me reply to your comment further down for some reason. I'm guessing you're mainly talking that Arkham Knight port which was a total shambles, luckily the Steam refund option came at the same time so the publisher couldn't just try and get away with it. Thankfully I didn't enjoy the batman games after Asylum so missed it (along with the Assassin's Creed Unity mess) or I may well have been really put off PC gaming. I actually just watched that Total Biscuit video the other day just to see how bad it was and the performance with that kind of set up was pretty shocking (I don't follow his videos because I have a borderline irrational hatred of that voice he puts on, I just can't listen to him). I suppose it shows that with PC gaming you have to be willing to put up with a certain element of luck as to whether a game will run fine for you, require a bit of fiddling or be unplayable in the case of Arkham Knight which I can understand a lot of people wouldn't see as worth the bother when it'll play as expected on the consoles, even if it doesn't have as many graphical bells and whistles.

I suppose I must be a bit of a PC fanboy but I hope to God I never get as bad as the "master race" loons. I certainly don't have the machine for it with an overclocked i5 and GTX 670 and only play at 1080 but I really haven't had any major problems with any games, other than having to turn off some silly features like the magic hair physics in the two Tomb Raider games. Some games also just feel right to me on console even if the PC port is done properly. Metal Gear Solid The Phantom Pain and GTA 5 wouldn't have felt "right" playing on the PC, they've always been Playstation games for me so that's the platform I bought it on. If I only had a PC I would never have been able to play so much stuff like Bayonetta 2 on the Wii U, or Bayonetta 1 for that matter which is one of my absolute favourite games of all time. Being able to retire my Wii to the roofspace and play all my games with the same controllers. no disc swapping and greatly improved graphics is something pretty special though, I just hope they get the Wii-U one working as well eventually.

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Superbeast 37
31/1/2016 07:25:58 pm

In my view there were two golden ages of PC gaming.

The first was in the early 90's when we had moved to VGA graphics, soundblasters replaced the built in speaker and we received well optimised fully working games that not only vastly surpassed anything on Amiga or the Consoles of the day but were so revolutionary they created entire new genres.

We then entered the first dark age of PC gaming with the introduction of the PS1 era and the first graphics accelerators.They were the preserve of the wealthy when the majority were stuck with CPU-only and most new games became an unplayable travesty even on the lowest detail settings. Even for those lucky enough to have a 3DFX card, there was no direct X (most still ran in DOS) and you relied on specific support in games at a time when barely anyone had the internet.

Those issues were rectified by the early 00's and we entered the second golden age which ran right up to the end of the 360/PS3 console generation. We lost a lot of our exclusives and were no longer at the cutting edge of development but we did receive far superior versions of titles compared to the consoles. On the exclusive front we did see the MMO genre take off.

Finally in 2013 we entered the second dark age with the release of the XO and PS4. In fairness the dark age didn't officially start in my view until Watch Dogs which was one of the first big games that was heavily designed around next gen consoles. The unified memory issue appeared to lead to a huge spate of PC games that were utterly crippled by incurable stutter. VRAM requirements for GPU's went through the roof and games on Steam jumped from £25 to £40 for a typical new AAA (disgraceful opportunism from publishers).

I don't know where we go from here. I'd have hoped devs would have gotten on top of the conversion issues now but it still seems hit and miss.

Rise of the Tomb Raider is one of the first in a while where I haven't had to edit an ini file or Google up some workarounds. Still there are bad graphical issues such as the pre-rendered video in the avalanche or the pre-rendered water when you escape that first temple being all distorted and out of sync.

CdrJameson
28/1/2016 01:09:12 pm

Quite surprised to find that I last upgraded my graphics card (to a GeForce 750 GTX) 2 years ago.

Even more surprised to find that a new one costs £5 more now than it did then.

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MrDrinks
28/1/2016 02:08:43 pm

Where are people getting the idea that you need to spend thousands on a PC to play games? Until reading these comments I didn't think anyone really believed that anymore but obviously I was wrong. PC gaming is not the insane excess that it used to be, the kinds of money you see people spending to build PCs in the "master race" section of Reddit is *not* the average, or even remotely necessary.

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PC GAWN MAD
28/1/2016 10:33:53 pm

The comments here demonstrate why getting a PC is a bad idea.

You might as well invest £800 on a reversible sedgwick and spend the other £1800 on a Boxyless Gift.

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Hoboerotica
29/1/2016 10:56:26 pm

What's with this "building a PC" lark? It's 2016 for goodness sake.

Just shows you that computers haven't moved on since the ZX80.

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CdrJameson
30/1/2016 04:46:36 pm

Hang on, if you've got a Mac can't you just load Windows onto that and play PC games that way?

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CdrJameson
30/1/2016 08:57:37 pm

'Boot Camp' that's the thing.

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Bruce Flagpole
30/1/2016 04:57:00 pm

A lot of people over complicating things.
If mr b wants a taste of pc gaming then a 500 quid box 'off the shelf ' would prob out perform ps4, allow him to sample all the delights of steam.
Spend a few hundred more to run everything 1080p with max settings.
4K of just a pissing contest, and something to try get you buying new screens

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Will
1/2/2016 12:16:40 am

agreed.

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Admiral Spiney O'Sullivan
30/1/2016 05:26:33 pm

I keep toying with the idea of PC gaming since people talk about how it's not as complicated as it was back in the day when my Window 95 and 98 PCs crashed every time you even looked at them funny, let alone tried to run a game. The other week I downloaded Psychonauts off Steam (admittedly on Mac, but I'm just dipping my toe in the water before even considering spending twice the money I would have to on a console), only to learn that apparently it didn't support my controller and didn't bother to suggest why or what to do. There's probably some driver or mod or other that could maybe get it to work, or I could buy a different controller, but frankly, call me lazy, but I just want a thing I bought to work out of the box, which console games usually do. It really is just a convenience thing. I get that for many the effort is worth the boost in performance and graphics, but I'm not honestly that worried.

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MrDRrnks
30/1/2016 06:30:07 pm

The Xbox controllers work with most games on Steam (that would be played with a controller), with the on-screen prompts etc. changing to match the correct buttons. They work with Windows just by plugging them in but I think on the Mac there's a bit of a faff with 3rd party software unfortunately.

I really don't like playing with mouse and keyboard so if the Xbox controller wasn't properly supported I probably wouldn't have bothered with the PC for games.

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CdrJameson
30/1/2016 08:54:21 pm

You are wrong.

Everyone knows that the Mac 'just works' and any observations to the contrary must be the result of your deranged mind.

Please report to our Genius Bar for readjustment.

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Dr.ded
31/1/2016 07:36:37 pm

I was on consoles for a few years but have recently returned to PC gaming and it's soooo smooth. I rarely have any issues at all and I've spent well under 800 dollars. Also I get my games for a fraction of the console price so I'm not ever looking back.

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Mr Biffo
1/2/2016 09:29:07 am

Yeah... I want to do it. Just, y'know... money an ting.

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